Dr. Mordecai’s presentation was entitled Computational Economics and Big Data: How Technology is Transforming Business Decision Making. The other participants on the Big Data Panel were Will Tucker of Ideas42 and Peter Evans from GE, and the session was moderated by Sara Potter from Factset.

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